Female Resistance In The Middle East And Beyond

Sepideh Qolian tells how confessions are extracted from detainees, in a rare letter from Evin prison.



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Frozan Safi, an activist and economics lecturer, has been identified as one of the four bodies found at a house in Mazar-i-Sharif.

In receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa became only the 18th woman to be selected for the award in i

It feels as though we are experiencing an epidemic of violence against women, but it has always been this way.

Roshan Rajper found dead in her house in Ranipur several days after she went missing

Gender activists praise the move but say inequality remains a problem

“FOR security reasons, demonstrations are banned in Afghanistan from now on,” reads the first official decree issued by the Afghan interior ministry under the Taliban regime.

A powerful mix of insecurity and traditional prejudice against more liberal female politicians put Awatef Rasheed off running for parliament when she returned to Iraq in 2014 after years abroad.

Mahbouba Seraj, human rights activist and CEO of Afghan Women's Network, sits down with CNN's Nic Robertson in Kabul, Afghanistan, to discuss women's rights under Taliban rule.